DREAM CHALLENGES CONFERENCE HACKATHON

mining big data from a Parkinson’s Disease mobile research study

The DatamPower, is an App-based clinical study, focused on Parkinson Disease (PD), developed by Sage Bionetworks and the University of Rochester. As of August 2015, mPower enrolled 18,000 participants - the largest PD study ever. The data being collected from this study will be made available for this year’s DREAM Conference Hackathon’s participants.

Helping Parkinson’s Disease PatientsTypically symptoms in PD patients are evaluated and recorded twice a year, when the patient goes to the doctor. Between these doctor’s visits, a patient’s disease status is left unmonitored, and important decisions about interventions are often not made in a timely manner. mPower is built to allow patients to continuously track their PD signs and symptoms, generating data on the patient’s voice (pitch and tremor), balance, walking and finger speed and dexterity.

The DREAM Conference HackathonThe goal of this hackathon is to use the mPower data to generate insights about PD. The data is collected using Sage Bionetworks Bridge Server, and Sage scientists have already proved that valuable information can be extracted from the mPower study. However there is a lot more work to be done. In this hackathon participants will bring their expertise and creative energies to develop ideas, models or proposals on how best to glean insights from this powerful study.